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\u201cHere\u2019s just one example of what she has been through. Niamh won the intermediate football title in Limerick last year, qualifying for a Munster quarter-final. That game was scheduled for the same weekend as the Limerick camogie finals. A number of dual players were involved. They were told that they would have to make a choice and wouldn\u2019t be considered for the camogie final on the Sunday if they played the football quarter-final on the Friday night.<\/p>\n
\u201cImagine 21- and 22-year-olds being put in that position. Missing players, they lost the football game. That sickened Niamh as you don\u2019t get too many goes at winning Munster.\u00a0 A lot of those girls have now gone to Australia so the likelihood is they won\u2019t get another chance.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe management teams involved were doing the best for the teams they were in charge of but ultimately it comes down to two separate governing bodies in the female codes. That wouldn\u2019t happen in the men\u2019s codes as a solution would have been found by the GAA. These kinds of things occur too regularly.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you just look at a baseline of how women are treated compared to how men are treated there\u2019s a massive chasm,\u201d Hegarty later added.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s from fixture clashes to access to facilities to female players being asked to pay to play. They have to ask themselves, \u2018Can I afford it?\u2019
<\/em><\/p>\n\n Conor Meyler speaking at the GPA media briefing alongside Tom Parsons and Gemma Begley.<\/p>\n
Source: Morgan Treacy\/INPHO<\/p>\n
At a GPA press conference in Dublin on Monday, Red Hand All-Star Meyler stated that the GAA have the chance to \u201cset the tone\u201d in society by passing the motion.<\/p>\n
Speaking to RT\u00c9 Sport, the Omagh St Enda\u2019s clubman added: \u201cIf we look at other national sporting bodies and how they\u2019ve integrated, this is something that is doable.<\/p>\n
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\u201cAs a male inter-county footballer, by standing by and being quiet, you are part of the problem here.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of us think it\u2019s okay to say nothing. We\u2019ve probably all seen and heard of stories that have happened within ladies football and the Camogie Association the lack of pitches and food and preparation and all the rest.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe turn a bit of a blind eye to it. We need more male role models to stand up and say, \u2018This isn\u2019t on, this isn\u2019t right\u2019, from a societal point of view as much as anything.\u201d<\/p>\n
GAA Congress takes place in Bekan on Saturday.<\/p>\n
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